Experience is Knowledge

Anyone ever hear the phrase "Experience is Knowledge?" It's this idea that you can know facts about something, but until you actually walk out the door, you don't actually know anything. As long as you aren't willing to actually experience that which you've studied, why bother?

I graduate from college in less than a month. At the end of it, I get to dive head first into the world of "Experience." I just got a job offer, about a couple of months ago, to go into full time ministry for a year, through Youth Encounter. I get to travel around the US for eight months, and in the middle of that time, we're flying to Denmark for four months.

Basically, I get to live like a minstrel for a year, moving from city to city, house to house, playing music, spreading the gospel. I get to live out of a van with 5-7 people, living off of the hospitality of others, living in their houses, on their couches, eating at their dinner table.

Long story short, it is the experience of a life time, using gifts that God has given me, in order to advance the gospel!

What are you doing with the gifts that God has given you?  For many of us, right now we are called to be full time students or full time workers.  How are you using your school or job or extended vacation (as you search for a job) to advance the kingdom?

Students and workers have an amazing mission field that they live in everyday.  Classes are a great way to get to know people and share with them. Offices open up the door for relationships.  God has places each and every one of us right where we are for a very specific reason, and without looking into each individuals calling, there is one calling that we all share, and that is to go make disciples.  So go do it!